Trust Issues in the Development of Group Relations in China, 2014 to 2018: Analysis and Interpretation of Key Events

Tsinghua University, and she is currently an associate professor in the counseling center of Beijing Jiaotong University. Her current research interests include neuroscience mechanism for addiction, mechanism of group psychotherapy, shame, cohesion and conflict, and attachment. She has been participating in the group relations conferences in China since 2014. She is the general secretary for the Division of Group Counseling and Group Therapy, China Association for Mental Health; and the co-director for China-America Society for the Study of Groups and Organizations (CASSGO). She has published articles and translated books in the area of group psychotherapy and group dynamics.

Principal of Harkins Educational Consulting and Advocacy, LLC. He is retired from a forty-five-year career in educational leadership K-12 and higher education, where he served in a variety of executive leadership roles. He has been adjunct professor at National Louis University, Chicago, IL since 1983. Dr Harkins has been involved in group relations conferences since 1985. He is a member of the board of directors of the A. K. Rice Institute, an A. K. Rice Fellow, and an A. K. Rice training and certification mentor. He has been involved in group relations conferences in China since 2014. Most recently he served as associate director for research, e-China Group Relations Conference: Trust and Conflict During a Time of Crisis and Unstable Boundaries. His current research interests involve students with alternate abilities and inclusion, recovery from addiction, and ethnographic studies of group relations conferences as complex social systems.